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Word: kids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always had been a little reckless. He was an exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15 minutes. He took the test again and managed to impress the admissions people at Rice...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: The Last Road Trip | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

...that remain of an old friend. Ike's funeral was the following day. Hundreds of friends and relatives crowded the temple where we had once cut classes. Dozens of parents sat in the crowd, traumatized, pained, and guiltily thinking to themselves. Thank God that wasn't my kid...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: The Last Road Trip | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

...friend Ike always was a lucky kid, but luck wasn't enough that might out Highway...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: The Last Road Trip | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

...plot is sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Child's Play | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

...with more bicycle-theme humor, as well as Pee Wee's inimitable laughs, chuckles and snickers. His usual childishness flows easily through the film as well, as witnessed in one scene in which he gets into a "I know you are, but what am I" duel with another overgrown kid from the neighborhood...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Child's Play | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

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